Mosaique FM stated the bomber got here from the Mahdia area of japanese Tunisia and safety providers raided her residence after the assault.

Tunisian authorities have been on excessive alert in recent times following a spate of assaults together with a lethal capturing in Tunis’s Bardo Nationwide Museum in 2015 by which 22 individuals, together with many European vacationers, died.

Three months later, an Islamic extremist assault within the seashore resort of Sousse killed 38 individuals, principally British vacationers.

In November that yr, a suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus carrying members of the Tunisian presidential guard, killing 12 on a fundamental Tunis street. The Islamic State group later claimed duty.